NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1777MHz vs 1518MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 84.10GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

2.332 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +446%

12.74 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

10

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +350%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

20

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +325%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

31

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +325%

132

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

16

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +231%

53

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

30

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +226%

98

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

38

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +268%

140

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

29

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +162%

76

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

65

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +26%

82

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

92

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +67%

154

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

May 2018

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1392 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

1518 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1752 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

96bit

Memory Bus

128bit

84.10GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

28

768

Shading Units

3584

48

TMUs

112

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

36.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

72.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

36.43 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

2.332 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

72.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GP107

GPU Name

GA106

GP107-301-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

132 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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